by Jonas Clark | Sep 4, 2022
Due to the laborious, time-intensive, and expensive nature of soil testing, farmers typically only sample their soil once every four years. Perennial (formally Cloud Agronomics) leverages machine learning, ground observations, and remote-sensing to measure and map soil carbon and land-based emissions at continent-level scales, providing innovative best practices to assess and predict global agricultural production health.
Recently, they raised $18M in their Series A funding round, bringing their total amount of funding to $25M. Its product that measures the amount of carbon in global farmland soils was also recently selected by the United Nations as one of the Top 100 Global Projects using AI to solve UN Sustainable Development Goals. Perennial was founded by Brown alumni Alex Zhuk, ’20, Jack Roswell, ’20, and David Schurman, ’20. Read their Forbes profile here.
From Left: Alex Zhuk, Jack Roswell and David Schurman
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by Jonas Clark | Sep 3, 2022
Perkies is an innovative stick-on bra company founded by Rosie Mangiarotti, ’18. Unlike traditional stick-on bras, Perkies adhesives are replaceable. Wearers can even hand wash bras rather than simply toss them. In addition to bras, Perkies also offers seamless underwear, nipple covers, and nipple enhancers. The popular social media brand also donates part of their proceeds to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Perkies was a 2018 Brown Venture Prize Finalist and part of B-Lab’s 2018 cohort.
The company was recently covered by Forbes.
Photo Credit: Rosie Mangiarotti
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by Jonas Clark | Sep 2, 2022
Pointz is a mobile app that helps bicyclists find the safest route to their destination. This “waze for bikes” determines these routes by using road data and crowdsourced route information. Recently, this venture was awarded the grand prize of $40K at Texas Christian University’s (TCU) Values and Ventures Competition where 42 out of 235 teams from across the globe were invited to TCU’s campus to pitch their ideas. The Pointz app is now available on the App Store and Google Play. A 2020 B-Lab and 2021 Community Lab Venture, Pointz was founded by Maggie Bachenberg ,’22 (right) and Trisha Ballakur, ’22 (left)
To learn more, read its feature in the Providence Business Journal.
Photo Credit:TCU Values and Ventures® Competition
by Jonas Clark | Aug 31, 2022
ResusciTech’s app, SMART Certification, offers convenient, smartphone-based CPR training that provides compression practice with real-time feedback. The app launched in 2019. ResusiTech was among a handful of companies selected to pitch to Tim Cook during the Silicon Slopes Summit in Salt Lake City. In February 2021, ResusciTech received a $40,000 grant from the American Heart Association as part of the organization’s accelerator program.
ResusiTech was founded by Abigail Kohler, ’20 and Greg Fine, ’20 and received 3rd place in Brown Venture Prize in 2020. The firm is also a 2019 B-Lab alum. Read their profile in Brown Alumni Magazine.
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